Cobb-Blogs

Truro was to be my mother’s escape, for in 1924 she recklessly and without my father’s knowledge, bought an old fish house at the foot of Corn Hill.  She had carpenters and masons (who thought she was crazy) install a kitchen, a hand pump, a fireplace, a two-holer,...

  The railroad accident which happened at the North Truro Station on the evening of July 29th, was the only thing of the kind which has occurred in this vicinity since the road was built. On the day in question the downward freight train in charge of Conductor...

Arriving in Truro during wartime in 1918, Edward Wilson stumbled upon Eben Payne’s humble grocery store—“an oasis in a desert.” Inside, surrounded by barrels of crackers and penny candy, Eben Payne—cobwebbed boater hat and all—cheerfully served customers with meat cut from ice chest chunks, using the same hatchet he used for kindling.

Three years after George Washington was elected president…. he helped found the Humane Society.

The blacksmith shop had originally been a stable on the John Elliot Estate off what is now Prince Valley Road in South Truro.

In 1907, Truro Selectmen Isaac Morton Small was a busy body—also Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, Board of Health, School Committee, Library Trustee, and Election Official. 

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: During the summers of ’22 and ‘23, History major Susannah R. interned at the Highland House Museum, where our “can-do” youngster organized our extensive art collection and guided visitors through our exhibits.  At the Cobb Library...